In recent years the Chinese smartphone manufacturer #Xiaomi has managed to gain millions of customers worldwide. The recipe is a combination of decent and unexpensive hardware and #MIUI , a polished Android-based operating system.

I am one of these new Xiaomi's customers. I own a Xiaomi Red Rice, and I am happy with it. In fact, I have selflessly recommend Xiaomi's cell phones to friends and work mates.

Unfortunatelly , in some weeks I will wipe MIUI OS from my cell phone and install instead a ROM like Cyanogenmod.

Let me tell you that I find these kind of tasks a waste of time, and that I do hate them. I just want a reasonable priced device that just works. I prefer to spend my scarce free time with friends or enjoying the gifts the nature offer us, instead of tweaking the software that a smartphone runs.

Why? GPL violation. As a software developer, the job I earn my life with, I find this violation unacceptable.﻿